Your favourite First person shooter this year

Zardon · Nov 20, 2004, 03:57 PM

Cast your vote !

Zardon · Nov 20, 2004, 03:57 PM

Im voting Half life 2

Sandok · Nov 20, 2004, 04:33 PM

Same here Zardon, though Far Cry is hot too!

Vikingod · Nov 20, 2004, 04:36 PM

i said half life 2. one thing you guys forgot was the Call of Duty set. Those game are great, definetly a close second to half life 2.

Asmoday · Nov 20, 2004, 04:38 PM

I voted Half Life 2. but i really loved FarCry too, for me it was a pretty close vote.

pigdog · Nov 20, 2004, 05:08 PM

HL2 by a nose from Far Cry. D3 when I'm angry

Zardon · Nov 20, 2004, 05:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Vikingod

i said half life 2. one thing you guys forgot was the Call of Duty set. Those game are great, definetly a close second to half life 2.

Ok appended with two more. Call of Duty expansion and MOHPA.

gangsterant16 · Nov 20, 2004, 05:12 PM

i voted hl2 but doom3 would had been my second vote

crapman777 · Nov 20, 2004, 05:19 PM

half life 2 hands down far cry was good but it was too much shoot everything. hl2 has some puzzle solving though its mostly straight forward.

On second thought HL2 = Far Cry in GAMEPLAY. Far Cry u could go wherever you wanted really, more than one approach. Still best water effects i have seen in Far Cry.

dsdsdk · Nov 20, 2004, 05:28 PM

HL2 has by far the best water we've seen! it looks like actual water. the reflections and when things go into it they become unclear and wavey.
farcry, yes water is/was impressive, but it looks like it is taken out from a vacation brochure, too idyllic and too blue!

**MIG-31** · Nov 20, 2004, 05:35 PM

my vote.... half life 2.....great graphics and gameplay.

CaptinSxb · Nov 20, 2004, 05:46 PM

Having never played any of them i vote for HL2.

EcPercy · Nov 20, 2004, 07:16 PM

I voted farcry. I am sticking with my initial decision not to ever play HL2. I will not be supporting valve.

davidnsibs · Nov 20, 2004, 07:23 PM

having not completed HL2 yet, I dont think I can vote for it as I dont know how good I'll think of it in a few months time. CoD:UO was absolutley excellent. It really felt like I was helping out the allied forces in what was probably the most important conflict ever (for Europe anyway), rather than one man taking on the world by himself and winning. Saying that, FarCry looked beautiful, the levels were huge and it was fun to explore, and I know many disagree but the way some of the mersonaries attacked me from sniper towers, in vehicles and flanking on the ground I thought was superb. So it gets my vote

Sandok · Nov 20, 2004, 08:11 PM

This is just for the water bit... Here is Far Crys water next to HL2's water... Tried to take similar scenes just to show the diff... I find that HL2's water is clearly the winner!

Zardon · Nov 20, 2004, 08:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by EcPercy

I voted farcry. I am sticking with my initial decision not to ever play HL2. I will not be supporting valve.

Can I ask why?

gangsterant16 · Nov 20, 2004, 08:18 PM

I think half life 2 does have the best water and i forgot to mesion farcry iz a great game i have all 3games hl2,doom3,and fc and all of them are great but its goes from hl2,to doom3, to far cry, half life 2 is cause its fun and great graphics, doom3 is just the best graphics detail i ever seen and farcry waz ok i didn't have to much fun with farcry but it waz good all 3games are great!

Raptor · Nov 20, 2004, 08:38 PM

Half Life 2 by a nose. Far Cry a very close second

Judas · Nov 20, 2004, 09:04 PM

aww.... Metroid prime 2.... guess this ONLY computer based...hmm... i haven't played any of them

NeoTribal · Nov 20, 2004, 09:13 PM

I say Half Life 2 without a doubt. It seems to the the best all around game! Excellent Graphics, Gameplay, Physics, Scalability, and a high "fun factor" as well, although it's too bad the multiplayer aspect of it is non-existant. (CS:S doesn't count, in my opinion

)

I'm patiently waiting for HL2 Deathmatch...

EcPercy · Nov 20, 2004, 09:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zardon

Can I ask why?

Yes you can!

It may seem like a bad reason, but during the whole date fiasco and with the numerous disappointments I have moved on to other games. I have completely lost interest in valve. I even retired CS and HL. I also do not like the fact that you need, no wait must have, steam to play the game. I am with some of the others that do not approve of needing to ask permission and check in with papa every time I want to play something that I would have paid $60 to obtain.

I am looking forward to Guild Wars, Battlefield 2, and MGS3:SE. I am also thinking about getting World of Warcraft, but I am still thinking about the fact that the game is $15 a month and I have not really decided if it is worth that price.

Toasty_Rimjob · Nov 20, 2004, 10:02 PM

I have all 5 of these games and I have to vote for HL2. Farcry would be second, CoD third with Doom3 and MOH:PA sitting at the bottom (although it is the bottom of a rather impressive pile).

Zardon · Nov 20, 2004, 10:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by EcPercy

. I also do not like the fact that you need, no wait must have, steam to play the game. I am with some of the others that do not approve of needing to ask permission and check in with papa every time I want to play something that I would have paid $60 to obtain.

.

Yeah I can understand that, there are cracks around though that disable any form of "checking", which are unfortunately as you would expect being used for warezed versions which we will not go into here. However if you bought the game ethically I think you would have the right to use this.

I understand your views and admire your willpower but you are missing probably the best FPS ever made to this point bud

knuth · Nov 20, 2004, 10:19 PM

If you ever experience Steam inaccessibility through any numerous occurrences it becomes incredibly hard to disagree with his opinion. It happened to me a few nights ago when my network hub failed and as a result i couldnt get online, i thought i could at least play HL2, but i launched Steam and it refused to go into offline mode, instead it only cited a network access error, Steam and the game were fully up to date and it was incredibly annoying knowing that i couldnt play because of a mere technicality - the game was there, i've played it before, but it was a no go because of the Steam requirement - wonderful.

EcPercy · Nov 20, 2004, 10:24 PM

You may be right. I do agree with you about the no-cd patches that are released for games. If you buy the game you should not always need to have the original cd in the drive.

I have looked at most of the reviews that have been made available for HL2 and according to some sites the only thing that is great about the game is the graphics. I am not going to quote any one site over another, but what I was able to gather about the game is that HL1 has a better story and HL2 appears rushed towards the end. The game is somewhat longer than HL1 and has a disappointing ending.

On another note. Activation is becoming pretty common and I do not disapprove having it as long as your personal information is kept private. Having to basically "activate" the game every time to play is not acceptable.

knuth · Nov 20, 2004, 10:33 PM

It's like The Matrix (bad example for some) in the sense that as far as the releases go we have deliberatly not been given the full story just yet and extending on the matrix example, the ending in Half-Life 2 isnt the end of the story, so i think it's a little premature to judge the story right now.

Sandok · Nov 20, 2004, 10:44 PM

But it's the end of the game... You needed SOME more info on what gordon had done, was and all... We didn't get it

ColdPenguin · Nov 20, 2004, 11:02 PM

Yes Half-Life 2 is amazing, but I had to vote for Far Cry because it's incredibly impressive as the very first game Crytek has ever made, they programming the engine from scrath too with no prior experience.
The real reason though is that Half Life 2 is pretty much a rail shooter compared to Far Cry. Sure Far Cry has objectives, but you can pretty much go anywhere on the island you feel on boat, vehicle, foot, hang glider etc. to acomplish them. Well anyway Deus Ex is probably my all tiem favorite game so you can probably tell a like freedom in my gameplay. In comparison, Half Life 2 is a prescripted rail shooter, an amazing one too though, I think highly of it, but I feel like I need to give Far Cry a reward with my vote. Also with the 1.3 patch we can really say how highly detailed the character models are, and the graphics are amazing, it would be the first game I played with normal mapping. HL2 has great detail in their environments, but I was definately not blown away by graphics as I expected, I've already been spoiled by Far Cry and Doom III.

ronnn · Nov 20, 2004, 11:25 PM

I hope this poll is up for a while. Far Cry was a great game and now am waiting for my copy of hl2. Made the silly error of buying an xt for a second computer because it had vivo and still included hl2 coupon - but shipping is taking forever.

But reports of gameplay may make the wait worth it.

Dom · Nov 20, 2004, 11:46 PM

Half-Life 2 followed closely be FarCry.

Nov 20, 2004, 03:57 PM	#1
Zardon DriverHeaven Founder Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 32,480 Rep Power: 177	Your favourite First person shooter this year Cast your vote !

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Vikingod Int'l Fish Liaison Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: By the light of lamp I sit and type... Posts: 16,187 Rep Power: 109 System Specs	i said half life 2. one thing you guys forgot was the Call of Duty set. Those game are great, definetly a close second to half life 2. __________________ *How You Can Help DriverHeaven By Using Digg*

Nov 20, 2004, 04:38 PM	#5
Asmoday Demonic Join Date: May 2002 Location: In the cold, dark north... Posts: 5,198 Rep Power: 90 System Specs	I voted Half Life 2. but i really loved FarCry too, for me it was a pretty close vote. __________________ How You can help Hardwareheaven by using Digg

Nov 20, 2004, 05:08 PM	#6
pigdog HardwareHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Sydney, Australia Posts: 471 Rep Power: 55 System Specs	HL2 by a nose from Far Cry. D3 when I'm angry __________________

Nov 20, 2004, 05:12 PM	#8
gangsterant16 The tRu NigGa tO CoME 2 Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: New Jersey Posts: 153 Rep Power: 0	i voted hl2 but doom3 would had been my second vote __________________ AMD Athlon(tm) 64 3700+ 2.4ghz(san diego) Asus Av8 motherboard revision 2 i think lol Ati Radeon x800pro Default Clock 1.5 gigs of corsair xms 3200 (2sticks of 256 and 2 of 512) Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatality Logitech 680's (1000 watts max)! 80gig sata seagate hard drive and a 100gig wd "main hd' dvd drive, dvd burner 520 watt OKIA psu(suck ass psu!)

Nov 20, 2004, 03:57 PM	Thread Starter #2
Zardon DriverHeaven Founder Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 32,480 Rep Power: 177	Im voting Half life 2

Nov 20, 2004, 04:33 PM	#3
Sandok DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 9,472 Rep Power: 66	Same here Zardon, though Far Cry is hot too!

Nov 20, 2004, 05:19 PM	#9
crapman777 HardwareHeaven Lover Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Perth, Western Australia Posts: 158 Rep Power: 0	half life 2 hands down far cry was good but it was too much shoot everything. hl2 has some puzzle solving though its mostly straight forward. On second thought HL2 = Far Cry in GAMEPLAY. Far Cry u could go wherever you wanted really, more than one approach. Still best water effects i have seen in Far Cry.

Nov 20, 2004, 05:28 PM	#10
dsdsdk DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Denmark, CPH. Posts: 586 Rep Power: 0 System Specs	HL2 has by far the best water we've seen! it looks like actual water. the reflections and when things go into it they become unclear and wavey. farcry, yes water is/was impressive, but it looks like it is taken out from a vacation brochure, too idyllic and too blue! __________________ No more Kitty!

Nov 20, 2004, 05:35 PM	#11
MIG-31 HardwareHeaven News Mod Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Nottingham,UK Posts: 55,770 Rep Power: 444 System Specs	my vote.... half life 2.....great graphics and gameplay. __________________ Please Post Your News Submissions Here

Nov 20, 2004, 05:46 PM	#12
CaptinSxb DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Good Ol' U.S. of A. Posts: 404 Rep Power: 0	Having never played any of them i vote for HL2. __________________ A64-3200; x800xl; a couple other things ; and a floppy drive

Nov 20, 2004, 07:16 PM	#13
EcPercy HardwareHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Iraq Posts: 1,535 Rep Power: 64	I voted farcry. I am sticking with my initial decision not to ever play HL2. I will not be supporting valve.

Nov 20, 2004, 07:23 PM	#14
davidnsibs 9500pro Forever Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Bath, UK Posts: 273 Rep Power: 0	having not completed HL2 yet, I dont think I can vote for it as I dont know how good I'll think of it in a few months time. CoD:UO was absolutley excellent. It really felt like I was helping out the allied forces in what was probably the most important conflict ever (for Europe anyway), rather than one man taking on the world by himself and winning. Saying that, FarCry looked beautiful, the levels were huge and it was fun to explore, and I know many disagree but the way some of the mersonaries attacked me from sniper towers, in vehicles and flanking on the ground I thought was superb. So it gets my vote __________________ Goodbye 9500pro, you've been a faithful servant through Half life, Deus Ex, Unreal 2, Max Payne 1+2, Nolf 1+2, CoD, Far Cry, Civ IV, F.E.A.R and many more

Nov 20, 2004, 08:11 PM	#15
Sandok DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 9,472 Rep Power: 66	This is just for the water bit... Here is Far Crys water next to HL2's water... Tried to take similar scenes just to show the diff... I find that HL2's water is clearly the winner!

Nov 20, 2004, 08:18 PM	#17
gangsterant16 The tRu NigGa tO CoME 2 Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: New Jersey Posts: 153 Rep Power: 0	I think half life 2 does have the best water and i forgot to mesion farcry iz a great game i have all 3games hl2,doom3,and fc and all of them are great but its goes from hl2,to doom3, to far cry, half life 2 is cause its fun and great graphics, doom3 is just the best graphics detail i ever seen and farcry waz ok i didn't have to much fun with farcry but it waz good all 3games are great! __________________ AMD Athlon(tm) 64 3700+ 2.4ghz(san diego) Asus Av8 motherboard revision 2 i think lol Ati Radeon x800pro Default Clock 1.5 gigs of corsair xms 3200 (2sticks of 256 and 2 of 512) Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatality Logitech 680's (1000 watts max)! 80gig sata seagate hard drive and a 100gig wd "main hd' dvd drive, dvd burner 520 watt OKIA psu(suck ass psu!)

Nov 20, 2004, 08:38 PM	#18
Raptor DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: May 2003 Location: California USA Posts: 464 Rep Power: 0	Half Life 2 by a nose. Far Cry a very close second __________________ [COLOR=Green][COLOR=DarkOrange] P4C-800 DELUXE/P4 3.4 NORTHWOOD/2 GB CORSAIR PC3200/X850XTPE/2 300 GB MAXTOR HD'S/LOGITECH G5/LOGITECH Z-5500/CREATIVE XFI EXTREME MUSIC/MS 4000 KEYBOARD/Vizio VX37L HDTV/Toshiba HD-A2 HD DVD and Toshiba HD-XA1/Oppo HV970HD SACD/DVD-A universal player/Xbox 360/Sony PS3. [/COLOR][/COLOR]

Nov 20, 2004, 09:13 PM	#20
NeoTribal 1" Lobes! =D Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Miami, Florida Posts: 187 Rep Power: 0	I say Half Life 2 without a doubt. It seems to the the best all around game! Excellent Graphics, Gameplay, Physics, Scalability, and a high "fun factor" as well, although it's too bad the multiplayer aspect of it is non-existant. (CS:S doesn't count, in my opinion ) I'm patiently waiting for HL2 Deathmatch... __________________ To the Dark Tower Childe Roland went...

Nov 20, 2004, 10:02 PM	#22
Toasty_Rimjob DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Winnipeg, MB, Canada Posts: 34 Rep Power: 0	I have all 5 of these games and I have to vote for HL2. Farcry would be second, CoD third with Doom3 and MOH:PA sitting at the bottom (although it is the bottom of a rather impressive pile). __________________ AMD Athlon64 X2 3800+ @ 2.8Ghz DFI Lanparty UT Ultra-D Mobo eVGA 6800GT 256 MB 2 x 120GB Seagate 7200.7 (Raid 0) 3DMark2001se -- 28210 Marks 3DMark2k3 -- 14471 Marks 3DMark2k5 -- 6067 Marks

Nov 20, 2004, 10:19 PM	#24
knuth DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Johannesburg, South Africa Posts: 73 Rep Power: 0	If you ever experience Steam inaccessibility through any numerous occurrences it becomes incredibly hard to disagree with his opinion. It happened to me a few nights ago when my network hub failed and as a result i couldnt get online, i thought i could at least play HL2, but i launched Steam and it refused to go into offline mode, instead it only cited a network access error, Steam and the game were fully up to date and it was incredibly annoying knowing that i couldnt play because of a mere technicality - the game was there, i've played it before, but it was a no go because of the Steam requirement - wonderful.

Nov 20, 2004, 10:24 PM	#25
EcPercy HardwareHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Iraq Posts: 1,535 Rep Power: 64	You may be right. I do agree with you about the no-cd patches that are released for games. If you buy the game you should not always need to have the original cd in the drive. I have looked at most of the reviews that have been made available for HL2 and according to some sites the only thing that is great about the game is the graphics. I am not going to quote any one site over another, but what I was able to gather about the game is that HL1 has a better story and HL2 appears rushed towards the end. The game is somewhat longer than HL1 and has a disappointing ending. On another note. Activation is becoming pretty common and I do not disapprove having it as long as your personal information is kept private. Having to basically "activate" the game every time to play is not acceptable. Last edited by EcPercy; Nov 20, 2004 at 10:30 PM.

Nov 20, 2004, 10:33 PM	#26
knuth DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Johannesburg, South Africa Posts: 73 Rep Power: 0	It's like The Matrix (bad example for some) in the sense that as far as the releases go we have deliberatly not been given the full story just yet and extending on the matrix example, the ending in Half-Life 2 isnt the end of the story, so i think it's a little premature to judge the story right now.

Nov 20, 2004, 10:44 PM	#27
Sandok DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 9,472 Rep Power: 66	But it's the end of the game... You needed SOME more info on what gordon had done, was and all... We didn't get it

Nov 20, 2004, 11:02 PM	#28
ColdPenguin ***** goon Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 110 Rep Power: 0	Yes Half-Life 2 is amazing, but I had to vote for Far Cry because it's incredibly impressive as the very first game Crytek has ever made, they programming the engine from scrath too with no prior experience. The real reason though is that Half Life 2 is pretty much a rail shooter compared to Far Cry. Sure Far Cry has objectives, but you can pretty much go anywhere on the island you feel on boat, vehicle, foot, hang glider etc. to acomplish them. Well anyway Deus Ex is probably my all tiem favorite game so you can probably tell a like freedom in my gameplay. In comparison, Half Life 2 is a prescripted rail shooter, an amazing one too though, I think highly of it, but I feel like I need to give Far Cry a reward with my vote. Also with the 1.3 patch we can really say how highly detailed the character models are, and the graphics are amazing, it would be the first game I played with normal mapping. HL2 has great detail in their environments, but I was definately not blown away by graphics as I expected, I've already been spoiled by Far Cry and Doom III.

Nov 20, 2004, 11:25 PM	#29
ronnn DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 617 Rep Power: 0	I hope this poll is up for a while. Far Cry was a great game and now am waiting for my copy of hl2. Made the silly error of buying an xt for a second computer because it had vivo and still included hl2 coupon - but shipping is taking forever. But reports of gameplay may make the wait worth it.

Nov 20, 2004, 11:46 PM	#30
Dom DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 12,940 Rep Power: 0	Half-Life 2 followed closely be FarCry.